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Welcome back folks, since my previous blog posting I have been rather busy with tracking down solid applications to replace my freebies of choice from the Windows XP enviornment.

(x)HTML , CSS, Editor

I am still torn at this point I am replacing NotePad++ a great open source text editor with 2 applications at the moment:

1. Text Wrangler and
2. Taco HTML Edit

. Both are free both are capable but neither is as robust at NotePad++. At this time my endorsement would have to go to Taco HTML Edit because it has a much more intuitive easy to use interface.

Image Editing

This was a little scary for a bit but then a little research and reading showed me that there was no need to look to a different program to edit photos/images. On the Windows platform I was an avid GIMP user. Well it turns out that the X11 version (GUI enviornment for Linux) works fantastically under Mac OS X even if it isn't natively compiled for the MacIntel platform.Thumbnail Creation - I was lucky enough to come across a freebie called Easy Thumbnail under Windows and I again got lucky and found a nice little freebie called ImageWell

FTP program

I am having a hard time tracking down a good opensource FTP program available for the Mac OS, at the moment I am using an evaluation copy of CuteFTP for the Mac and it works great. I really wish I could get my hands on a freeware/opensource equivalant.

Well that is a few of the tools this Mac-newbie / geek has found to complete common tasks on his new Mac...Please contact me with any applications that you have found or come across that you think is worth a mention or a try.

Thanks so much and keep that feedback coming in to : GeekVsMac@robbiethegeek.com